#yinyang ren

[ipso-faculty]

Does anybody here know how the Chinese intersex community views perisex usage of the term yinyang ren (陰陽人) as a cultural gender?

All the intersex sources I've found on the term describe yinyang ren as either just a term for intersex, or as a reclaimed slur for intersex.

The old website of OII-Chinese, as quoted by @whimsy-flags, described it as:

“[Yinyang ren] are people whose physical gender cannot be clearly classified as male or female… Yin and Yang people do not mean people who deliberately choose to change their physiological characteristics.” (emphasis mine)

Yet I've also found a handful of sources from the perisex non-binary community that seem to view the term as a "third gender" for androgynous/bigender people, that oh just so happens to also sometimes include intersex people. I've noticed the sources that seem to be doing this are either members of the Chinese diaspora or just... not Chinese? 🤔

(edit to add: Chinese Wikipedia's entry for 陰陽人 is just a redirect to the entry on intersex/sex, and Wiktionary also indicates it's a word for intersex).

As an outsider it looks to me like the issue of perisex enbies being insensitive and thinking it's okay if they call themselves the h-word, combined with the issue of Global North wishful thinking about cultural genders. 😕

But I'm not Chinese, it's not my culture. I could be missing important context! I'd like to know if I'm reading this situation correctly or if I'm missing something. Thanks! 💜

[intersexwiki]

Contents under the cut, for archival

Pronouns flags:

ae/aer, co/cos, ey/em, he/him, it/its, one/one's, she/her, they/them, thon/thons, thou/thee, vee/vim, vi/vir, xe/xem, Archeopronominal, Cispronominal, Crosspronominal, Mirrorpronominal, Neoprononominal, Nonpronominal / Nullpronominal, Panpronominal, Panpronominal (alternate design), Pronoun Nonconforming, Transpronominal Nounself Pronouns: fae/faer, hu/hum, per/pers

Gender / Sex:

Agender, Altersex, Androgyne, Androgyne (original design), Bigender, Bigender (alternate design), Cisgender, Demiboy, Demifluid, Demigender, Demigirl, Endosex / Perisex / Dyadic, Genderfluid, Genderflux, Gender Creative, Gender Nonconforming, Genderqueer, Genderqueer (alternate design), Gendervoid, Hormone Nonconforming, Man, Maverique, Mirrorgender, Monogender, Multigender, Neutrois, Nonbinary, Omnigender, Pangender, Polygender, Sex Nonconforming, Transgender, Transgender (original design), Transfem, Transfem (alternate design), Transfem (Honeybee), Transfem (Honeybee - Alternate Design), Transfemmasc / Transmascfem, Transneutral, Transneutral (alternate design), Transmasc, Transmasc (alternate design), Transmasc (Coffeebean), Transmasc (Coffeebean - Alternate Design), Trigender, Woman

AFAB Transfem, AMAB Transmasc, Cistrans / Trisgender, Cistrans / Trisgender (alternate design), Close-to-Androgynous (CTA), Close-to-Female (CTF), Close-to-Male (CTM), Close-to-Neutral (CTN), Enby-Intersex / Internon, Enby-Intersex / Internon (alternate design), Extergender, Ingender / Interagender, Ingender / Interagender (alternate design), Interdemiboy, Interdemigirl, Interfluid, Intergender, Intergender (alternate design), Intergender (alternate design again), Intergenderqueer, Interimpaired / Disintersex, Interfem (my own design), Intermasc (my own design), Interneu (my own design), Intersex, Intersex (original design), Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), PCOS + Intersex, Ipsogender, Trans-Intersex / Intertrans, Trans-Intersex / Intertrans (alternate design), Trans-Intersex / Intertrans (alternate design again), Ultergender

Third Gender/Third Sex:

Third Gender / Third Sex, Argr / Ergi, Biza'ah / Muxe, Chibados /Quimbanda, Fa'afafine, Hijra / Kinnar / Kinner / Khawaja Sira, Māhū / Māhū Kāne / Māhūahine / Hoʻowahine / Hoʻokane, Qwariwarmi, Sekhet, Waria, X-gender, Yīnyáng Rén, Sapatrans / Transapatona, Sapatransviade, Sapatravesti, Travesti, Travestigênere, Transviada, Transviated, Bissu, Calabai, Calalai, three different Two-Spirit flags, Androgynos, Ay'lonit, Saris, Tumtum

Orientations:

Abrosexual, Ambiamorous, Autosexual, Achillean (MLM), Bicurious, Bisexual, Diamoric, Enbian (NBLNB), Gay, Bear, Otter, Wolf, Twink, Vincian (5-stripe design), Vincian (7-stripe design), Favoric (ILI / IXLIX), Heteroflexible, Heterosexual / Straight, Lesbian (5-stripe design), Lesbian (7-stripe design), Lesbian (alternate design), Ursa, Butch, Butch (alternate design), Femme, Monosexual, M-spec Lesbian, Multisexual, Neptunic, Omnisexual, Pansexual, Polyamorous, Polyamorous (original design), Polysexual, Queerian (QLQ), Sapphic (WLW), Toric (NBLM), Trixic (NBLW), Uranic Afamilial, Aplatonic, Aplatonic (alternate design), Aromantic, Aromantic (original design), Asensual, Asexual, AplAroAce, AroAce (alternate design), AroAce (alternate design again), Aroflux, Aceflux, Arospec, Acespec, Akoiplatonic / Lithplatonic, Akoiromantic / Lithromantic, Akoiromantic / Lithromantic (original design), Akoisexual / Lithsexual, Alloace, AroAce, AroAllo, Aplatonic Heteromantic/Heterosexual, Aromantic Heterosexual, Heteromantic Asexual, Demiplatonic, Demiromantic, Demisexual, Fictoplatonic, Fictoqueer, Fictoromantic, Fictosexual, Grey Aroace, Greyplatonic, Greyromantic, Greysexual, Aegobisexual, Loveless Aromantic, Lovequeer, Lovequeer (alternate design), Non-SAM Aromantic, Non-SAM Asexual, Quoiromantic

Aspec Stances:

Friendship Favorable, Friendship Ambivalent, Friendship Oscillating, Friendship Indifferent, Friendship Averse, Friendship Repulsed, Romance Favorable, Romance Ambivalent, Romance Oscillating, Romance Indifferent, Romance Averse, Romance Repulsed, Sex Favorable, Sex Ambivalent, Sex Oscillating, Sex Indifferent, Sex Averse, Sex Repulsed, Touch Favorable, Touch Ambivalent, Touch Oscillating, Touch Indifferent, Touch Averse, Touch Repulsed

Combo Identities:

AroAce Agender, AroAce Agender (alternate design), Bi Lesbian, Enbyhet, Gaybian, Lesboy, Omni Lesbian, Pan Lesbian, Poly Lesbian, Queerhet, Transbian, Transhet

Galactian Gender Alignments:

Lunarian, Duskian, Eclipsian, Twilightian, Solarian, Dawnian, Nebularian, Equinoxian, Stellarian, Celestian, Novarian, Solstian, Selenian, Calypsian, Singularian, Helian

Crossdresser, Drag Queen / King, Furry, Queer, Queer (alternate design), Questioning, Questioning (alternate design), Pink Triangle Queer, Slavic Queer, Unlabeled

Reclaimed Slurs:

Dyke, Faggot, Femboy, Feygele, Hermaphrodite (two different designs), Tranny (5-stripe and 7-stripe designs)

Intersex-for-Intersex (i4i / ix4ix), Intersex-for-Intersex (alternate design), Bi-for-Bi (bi4bi), Nonbinary-for-Nonbinary (nb4nb), Queerplatonic, Transgender-for-Transgender (t4t), Transgender Men-for-Transgender Men (tm4tm), Transgender Women-for-Transgender Women (tw4tw)

still working on xenogender flags and neurodivergent flags but this is a large chunk of the flags so far (and i still have more that im adding constantly!)

the best part of my pixel pride flag project is looking in different corners of the queer community to see what interesting terms they came up with that i would have never heard of otherwise

i really enjoy learning about other peoples experiences

might share some flag collections in a bit with yall

[youlookkindadead]

gender is so weird for me. like, really weird. as someone who...

1. is autistic and intellectually disabled.

2. is intersex.

3. and also schizospec.

4. has trauma surrounding the fucking concept of gender as a whole.

5. is nonhuman, has DID, etc etc etc....i could go on.

like. it's really fucking weird dude. i can't make sense of any of this shit. it used to bring me alot of distress, how i wasn't able to explain my gender in neat, simple labels. i feared people wouldn't take me seriously if i didn't condense my identity enough into tiny, bite sized, palletable chunks. but, you know what? who gives a shit. it's my gender, i don't care what other people think of it. i don't know what i am, and that's ok. i may never know what i am in full, and that's alright, i've accepted that.

i'm a girlish boy and a boyish girl. i'm a transfem man but a transneu lady. i'm very androgynous but simultaneously femmasc. my gender is cat. my gender is goopy and slimy. my gender can't be understood from a human lense. i'm beautiful and handsome. i'm yinyang ren, my gender is cultural and i'm proud of that. i'm like a girl who is a boy who is a girl who is nothing. my gender is absent, but not fully gone. my gender is a healing wound. my gender is a flourishing garden. my gender is lesbian. my gender is also fag. my gender is proud, it's bright, it's in your face and shouting. it's so niche, but it's perfect for me, and that's what matters.

call yourself whatever the hell you want. mix and match labels, go crazy. all that matters is that you're respectful, and more importantly, that you're happy with your gender. it doesn't have to make sense to everybody, it just has to make sense to you <3

[whimsy-flags]

陰陽人   (Traditional) / 阴阳人    (Simplified) / Yīnyáng Rén   (Pinyin)

Yinyang Ren is typically described as a slur directed towards intersex people in the Chinese community. However, the Organization Intersex International Chinese (OII-Chinese) has reclaimed this, as well as many others of our [intersex] community. the OII-Chinese site states:

“Yin and Yang are people whose physical gender cannot be clearly classified as male or female… Yin and Yang people do not mean people who deliberately choose to change their physiological characteristics.” [Source] 

Flags made for @chrysonian, who helped with the design and also wrote the text above!

[lunar-wandering]

Whats your oc’s most hated thing like someone bringing it up in even a slightly annoyed way will immediately make them go into a rant about it

in order of universe (only using my more developed ones):

May: people telling her the supernatural isn’t real

June: the English language

Alejandro: the song Alejandro by Lady Gaga

Robin: people assuming he’s dead

Raven: police/the law

Eva: exorcists

Mack: also exorcists

Ren: being reminded that he is, in fact, dead

~

Sound: the cold

Allegra: people playing instruments wrong

Rel: people thinking he’s Naen

Naen: people thinking he Rel

Note: bright neon colours

Silence: loud noises

~

Joule: the soap argument

Cider: coffee

Rayden: power outages

Torch: his friends thinking he’s dating Kaden (to be clear on this, Torch and Kaden are the same person)

~

Lief: cats and cars

Mel: messy hair

~

Zang: people assuming Zing is bad

Zing: bright lights

[spinnenpfote6]

YinYang

Some of my Reylo art from August to heal your soul, both in their respective colors

[pride-color-schemes]

Yinyang ren

Yinyang ren as well as the other terms in the “culture exclusive gender” tag are genders that are specific to certain cultures and should not be used by people not of that culture. If you’re not sure you’re able to use this, feel free to send an ask on my ask blog [Link], I have followers that could help you out!

(Copied from this post [Link])

Yinyang ren is a cultural gender identity from China. The concept is that a person has a balanced amount of yin energy (femininity) and yang energy (masculinity), which makes them a very balanced person. This is reflected in the flag, where the circle is meant to be a sort of “balanced” or perfect symmetry version of the traditional yinyang symbol from Taoism. The red background comes from a novel known as The Dream of the Red Chamber, which is a very culturally important novel in China whose protagonist is a yinyang ren.

This identity is closest in concept to bigender in the Western countries, although yinyang ren can also be used by people who are intersex, trans, bisexual/biromantic, or just androgynous in general. In our chatroom, the yinyang ren we have are (using closest English equivalents) two bigender (including myself), three intersex, one trans man (undergoing transitions now), and one who is androgynous (but not comfortable with the nonbinary label). Again, this is just comparing with English equivalent, we all consider each other yinyang ren anyways.

There is not much information on yinyang ren in English, though honestly I feel that this link covers more or less the same information as you would find in Chinese.

[Image: Flag with a red background, and a circle in the center. The circle is left-half white, and right-left black, with a smaller circle of the opposite color in the middle of each half.]

Full size [Here]

Designed by: Anonymous

Color meanings: [Mentioned above]

Full pride gallery HERE! FAQ and “dictionary” of genders, orientations, and other related terms HERE. Send any questions to Ask-Pride-Color-Schemes!

[romana73]

REYLO VS HEI AND YIN FROM DARKER THAN BLACK PARALLELS

Post written by ME. The animated gifs and the photographs of the films shown are NOT MY and DO NOT BELONG TO ME IN ANY WAY.

"Darker Than Black" is an anime written and directed by Tensai Okamura and produced by Bones studio, formed by two series and an OAV (Darker than Black: Origins) Right order in which to watch anime is: Darker Than Black 1 season + OAV + Darker Than Black 2 season. There is also a adaptation of Anime in Manga. Ten years before story told, a strange territory, called Hell's Gate, appeared in Tokyo, ruining landscape and altering sky, which disappeared, replaced by false stars. At same time, people with paranormal powers appeared, cold-blooded murderers, almost completely devoid of feelings, killing using their powers. These people are called Contractors and their existence is kept secret to people. Contractors are used as murderers and spies from various organizations. Whenever a false star falls, it means a Contractor is dead. Contractors are flanked by a Doll, human MEDIUM, APATICS, devoid of emotions and their own will, able to detach themselves from their aurea, using it as OBSERVER SPIRIT. Nobody considers Dolls as human and their name is due precisely to fact these people can be treated as real DOLLS, to do everything, without them rebelling or feeling something. Protagonist of "Darker Than Black" is Hei, codename BK - 201, Syndacate’s killer. Hei nicknamed is Dark Reaper,  he controls electricity, but he’s also good at fighting bare hands. Yin is Hei Doll, but he doesn’t treat she as such... at some point, Yang, negative pole begins to claim Yin, whose duty is to unite with Yang... Hei also has a personal mission: find his sister Pai, who disappeared years ago ... 1) Few people know Hei’s true face and identity, ‘cause when he’s in mission he wears a MASK, a long BLACK COAT, GLOVES and WHIP:

Few people know Kylo Ren’s true identity and face, nicknamed "Jedi Killer", 'cause he always wears a mask, cape and black gloves when he comes into action:

2) Hands:

Darker Than Black :

Hei e Yin :

Reylo :

3) Hei is about to kill Amber and Yin shouts "NO!" :

Kylo Ren kills Han and Rey screams "NO!"

4) In the arm:

Darker Than Black:

Hei/Yin:

Reylo :

5) Water and snow:

Darker Than Black:

Yin uses water to activate her medium skills and use her Observing Spirit:

Reylo :

6) Yin e Yang :

Darker Than Black :

Reylo :

7) Shoulder to shoulder:

Darker Than Black:

Reylo:

8) The broken mask:

Darker Than Black:

Kylo Ren :

9) Caress on Cheek:

Darker Than Black :

Kylo Ren :

10) Wounds :

Darker Than Black

Kylo Ren:

[bb-92]

CLICK ON THE FIRST PICTURES TO SEE IT IN A BETTER QUALITY!

The theme of this picture is yin and yang. Probably I will do other compositions with this subject because I like it so much.

Rey is really different from my previous ukiyo-e drawings because this time her style is in reference to TLJ, and I’m really satisfied for how I do her kimono and hair. Also I change her face because in the first ukiyo-e it was too much similar to Ichiro Tsuruta’s style.

Kylo Ren is always the same, I only changed a bit the clothes but I’m so proud of my self for how I do his katana.

Hope you like it! If you want to see my other Reylo ukiyo-e click on the links below:

Kylo Ren and Rey: https://bb-92.tumblr.com/post/173835318290/on-the-internet-there-are-various-picture-of-star

Kylo Ren- Compassion: https://bb-92.tumblr.com/post/174088324625/this-drawing-took-me-a-lot-of-time-especially-to

Kylo Ren and Rey- Carry the bride: https://bb-92.tumblr.com/post/174279492380/the-famous-scene-where-kylo-ren-carry-rey-in-his

[theapologeticartist]

*comes out of hibernation to draw Reylo*  (do not repost my art without my permission) 

[redrumrose]

For what is light without the dark?

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Guess who saw Star Wars!!

[eddievanhammettmunson]

Some people have been requesting that I post some Fanarts of Kylo and Rey. These are not mine so creds to owner @verauko who did an amazing job. I really love the yin and yang symbol.

[jenniferladybug]

- quoted from the article by Anthony Breznican (EW, 2017) 

[whimsy-flags]

Bee Pride Flags!

Intersex | Trans | YYR

Free to use!

[starwarstrending-blog]

So it was kylo she saw in the mirror???

[sheilaunison]

Duality Yin/Yang in TLJ

Rey and Kylo’s opposite position, color of sabers and color of clothes.

The First Jedi, on Ahch-To

Rose’s necklace (and her sister’s)

Two opposites setting suns when Luke...you know...

Luke is teaching Rey that light and dark coexist.

Force Bond: it’s raining on the island, while we can see sparks on Kylo’s spaceship.

The saber breaks, because Rey and Kylo have an equal amount of Force.

Also, the dark hole in Ahch-To, in contrast with the rest of the island, the place of the Jedi Temple.